Wow, I am going to make a nursery bed just like yours when I put my Greenhouse up! Thanks for the lovely comments! P.S I knew you couldn't wait until March to sow the first seeds!
Hi Hilary, it's a great time of year, as you can tell my spirits are lifted and I'm raring to go! I will be joining you in the 'checking on the seedlings' thing in the next week or so :-)
Lovely update Liz I went to the plot today to water my seeds and to see them germanated made my day but still plenty of seeds to go in yet. Just carnt wait for planting out time. Happy sowing and growing Regards Sam 🌞🌱🌼🐞🐝
@@LizZorab ill be honest Liz I always been a little lazy on growing flowers I normally buy them first year growing marigolds and iv got 100 plus now for 50p I'm overjoyed buy it because 6 marigolds normally cost around £2.50 and for 50p now got 100 marigolds plent more to sow but loveing every second all the best and hope you have so much joy onwards and upwards 🌞🌱🌻🐞🐝
I am busy sowing too! I live in a drafty old farmhouse, so I have been using my Crockpot (slow cooker) to start seeds for years. You fill halfway with water and put a cookie sheet on top instead of the lid. Plant shallow pots with seeds and place on top. Depending on how hot your model gets, you adjust your setting to either warm or low. If it is still too hot, put a dishtowel between the pan and the shallow pots of soil. Too hot and you will cook your seeds. Remember to keep the soil moist and the water filled halfway in the pot! Once they sprout, move them to another spot and start more seeds! All my tomatoes are up and I am starting peppers now!
I'm using spent compost as I pot up tomato and pepper plants in a corner of the greenhouse, under the main shelf to sow salad leaves, so recycling the compost! I like the idea of the frame to make a deep bed. Cheers!
Thanks! I really struggled to find something similar to the grit listed in USA, but expect it's called something different there :-) What are you sowing first?
This is an exciting time of year planting my seeds and eagerly waiting to see the first tiny shoots!! I have done a few trays last weekend too with broad beans, letteuce, cabbage, sweetcorn. I still have more to do in trays and I love it!
Hi Denise, spring is such a great time! Coming out of my winter low and feeling hopeful again and then all those little plants just waiting to burst into life - it's fabulous!
@@LizZorab Thanks for your lovely reply. Yes I agree about leaving the gloom of winter dark evenings behind. It was discovering the enjoyment I got out of seeing seeds emerge into wonderful crops that has helped me with a lot of things. It's snowing at the moment but I know bright days are ahead and my seeds are waiting.
Liz we have those Egyptian onions! We harvested 40lbs last year. They spread like crazy, but are very tasty. If you end up with too many later on, they freeze well. Chop them like you do your chives and freeze in a bag. Good luck and good planting!
Hi Eva, ooh thank you for the tip, I will remember about chopping and freezing them :-) Hope you can join me tomorrow (Sunday) for a while on my live chat if it isn't too early for you in your corner of the world!
Good morning!! It’s been sunny ☀️ for 2 days in a row and I’m getting excited about the snow melting away. I’m getting excited about doing seeds. Have a Blessed day Beautiful. Tell Mr J hello 😉
Hi Rebecca Jo, how are you? It's a great time of year, this week my spirits have been lifted by the sunshine (even if the next week is due to be stormy).
Hi Liz! Yes all very exciting now, I managed to get out on the brassica bed this afternoon to get a bit more done, I do like your greenhouse very good :-)
Hi James, the greenhouse frame was here when we moved in and I spent the first few months getting the glass into it - it was like doing a puzzle without knowing the picture on the front of the box! It's not perfect, but it's perfect enough for my uses. There are a few panes missing which I fill in with polythene although that makes it very noisy when the wind is blowy. This greenhouse was secondhand when the previous owners bought it, greenhouse recycling - something I highly recommend!
I never heard of starting onion sets inside before Erica put her video up. While I have plenty of seed, I think I will get a bag of sets and try it as soon as they get in the stores, just to see how it goes.
Enjoying your channel. Our first seedlings are up today (at last) after a nervous wait since I used some 10+ yr old seed (was going to waste otherwise so took the chance). Quite excited to find your perennial bean video recently. We're gradually developing a food forest in our suburban garden and I'm planting beans by the existing shrubs and young trees this year. What a bonus if any could be kept going perennially!
Hello! Great to read that your old seeds have germinated, nature is such a clever thing! Glad that you liked the bean video. If you have a look in the comments of that video (I think it was that one) several people commented that they've been growing beans in the same place with the same plants for years!
Hi Liz . Would love to drop by your live stream . Sunday morning now and is 6 am here so if you could tell me what time . You Tube don t seem to work some times and I need to write it on paper .All the Best .Howie @@LizZorab
How exciting, I have my soil , seeds and trays , it's just too cold here now , and I don't have a greenhouse . So nice to see you have already begun ! ❤️🌿
Love your daffodils! Mine should flower within a week I think. I tried some basil recently too, indoors on the warmest, sunniest window area we have, but nothing germinated - like you said, too cold. The grit idea is great, thanks for that tip.
Fun to see you potting seeds. We are still four months away from being able to put plants outside. I won’t pot until mid April. I have to say ready steady snow😂
Nice one Liz. It will be a few years before I can really cut back on most plastics as I have already bought supplies to keep me going! I have no space for a seed bed so I'm shopping for heavy duty plastic seed modules that are supposed to last 10 years or so. Steve
Hi Michelle, walking onions are great , they are a perennial and they produce a seed head of little bulbils that bends over and when it touches the ground they start to root, so they reproduce themselves really well.
Hi Jo, I've had a few comments from folks that will have to wait a while yet and so I'm going to sow some seeds for those of you who are still under snow or rain :-)
I look forward to hearing about the walking onions! This is something I have thought about growing,and would love to see how they do for you. Great video :)
Thank you Heidi, I'm really looking forward to seeing how the walking onions grow over the next couple of years - I just have to remember not to pull them up when I harvest all the other onions!
First time subscriber saw you on Ericas chat Thanks for all the tips..I am from across the pond and have limited space but have managed to get a nice size rectangle raised bed and large pots and will start growing veg ..Love my flower beds also so Thanks again for the encourage ment to get started on my seeds Blessings your way🌱🌾🌺
I follow a homesteading channel called Lumnah Acres In the New England area of America who appear to be having harsher weather than us at the moment. He is starting some of his veggie sowing by using a little gadget to make compressed seed sowing blocks out of compost, which makes planting on much easier of course.
Very curious about that onion. It's still on my wishlist. We always sow the broadbeans outside, along with early peas. We started cavolo nero too although some that were outside survived this weird mild winter. We started our seeds last week cause this weekend we're getting new piglets! Looking forward to seeing your garden in full swing.
Thanks Liz for sign posting video re red cabbage. Copying the idea with breaking plastic milk bottles etc to make labels especially when potting on seedlings. What will you be sowing now in July/August?
Your daffodils are up!? Oh my! Yes I heard you were exceptionally warm over there already,, hope it doesn't lead to another scorcher of a summer. -37 Celsius here this am,,, Canmore Alberta. We are a long way off from daffodils,,,June maybe.
Dear Liz, we are runing out of snow on 1000masl. Day temperatures almost 15 degres. My neighbour next door who has nothing to do is already 3 times burned just stting outside. I am afraid we will have no fruits this year when late frost will come in april. Bezz are already outside. I was in the valey this morning around 8am and I saw frozen cars but at 6am in our hils was 2 plus. Last year at thet time we have over meter of snow. Old aple and plum trees here are 10m high, no way to protect them of frost. We have a cherry tree, its higher then hous and we have 3 flat house. Must be 200 years old, full of charrys every year just for birds. If thet tree felt down we will have sirius damage on our hous. My gradma was born in 1905, till she died she always says, dont cut down the trees. They are stil wery much productive, with no work, old kind of sorts. Lots of good pies and marmalads but you have to be a kind of alpinist to rich the fruits, then I use my husband hahaaaa. His life insurance is very good haaaa.... Usualy I start with seeds direct in the ground in the end of march, and sometimes in may we have snow, but even my tomatoes survive in 15cm of snow two years ago, it was I think 5th of may but of course next day no frost and the snow was gone thru the day. I work 6 months per year, 16 hours per day in the sommer season so I dont have much time for my garden. In almost 20 years I learn all the haks how to grow enought with less work . But I told you before, may bugs are pain in my ass, I have to buy nematodes second time . It is expensive. I can get lots of vegetables for this money from local farms. With thet money I can buy enough meat for family of two for al year. Just my garden and grass oround the hous, where is other 8000m2. So I understand young people who left farms. Lots of city people buy vegi and meat in Lidl, Spar....Local food is to expensive, I work in turisem and belive me most of turist eat hamburgers and picas, gril meat, pancakes....maybe fish and they ask if the fish is fresh from the lake. Are you crazy, our lake is 6km long how can I get so much fresh fish for a milion of turists? Is salmon fresh from the lake? Dear god, meditiranian sea doesnt has salmons to swim up river, but when somebody ask you if tuna if fresh in the salat belowe 2864m high mountain......yes, I came before work and catch tuna in our lake yust before you came. Want to tell you thet local food for turists is expensive so they rather eat picas and hamburgers on vacations It is very hard to earn some money with gardening and sell it to hotels and restaurants. Again my long coment, I promis I will not send another one for few months hahaaaa...love you all!!!
I am glad you said about cuts taking time to heal because of thyroid, as I have experienced it myself and keep telling myself 'Don 't Panic Mr Manuring' I thought when I was diagnosed with it that at last I would be losing a lot of weight but the opposite has happened. Any way the spring is here and what joy it brings,m keep up good work Liz.
Hi Mark, thyroid issues are a funny thing (peculiar not ha ha!), my weight is a constant battle which I get to grips with during the summer when I'm active and fail miserably in the winter when I'm sedentary :-)
@@LizZorab Yes Liz, exactly how I feel. Hopefully after summer graft I'm hoping to ;look down and see my feet. May take a picture for posterity sake. Tried cabbage diet once, after 2 months I did not loose a bean but my mother lost 2.5 stone. The joy of dieting is not the winning but the taking part. Much prefer to be gardening and being outdoors, weather permitting.
Kalettes are gorgeous, was only thinking I must get mine sown. Growing them for the first time. Amazingly i don't like either Brussels or kale but love kalettes!
Hi Rita, thank you for the tip about the walking onions, next year I will prepare a space for them in the autumn. I love that I am learning new things about gardening all the time :-)
The horticultural fleece (I think it's called a floating membrane or floating cover in USA) provides extra protection and warmth for the seeds. It still lets some light and moisture through but insulates them from the cold.
Not only remember him, but he is/was my gardening hero. Still watch videos (now on DVD) of his making a cottage garden and a small edible garden, what a star of a man he was!
Sorry if you've already answered this Liz, but there are already 100 comments, and the question isn't in the immediate ones. Have you tried direct sowing your Broad Beans in the September-December before? and if so what is your reasoning for now preferring to start them in the green house?
Hi Suzanne, late 2017 I planted broad beans to over winter and they did really well and survived the beast from the east snow storms. As soon as it warmed up, the slugs came out and ate every last bean! This year I thought I'd give them a fighting chance by starting them later and in the greenhouse. 😃
@@LizZorab Ah, I see. It will be really interesting to see how they fair in comparison. It's something I've always meant to do as a trial, but I don't really have the room. I always start mine off in the Autumn, but others around me start their's off in the green house now. I think I'm also reluctant because I don't have a green house, so I kind of begrudge the limited house space I have being taken up by something I know I can start outside the year before. I could do with time shares in a Fairy God Mother for more land instead of the gown lol
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Wow, I am going to make a nursery bed just like yours when I put my Greenhouse up! Thanks for the lovely comments! P.S I knew you couldn't wait until March to sow the first seeds!
I've been itching to start sowing and held out until we had that patch of lovely weather, but that just made me sow seeds (it made me it did!).
Cardboard is good for covering plants at night and when finished can go in the compost. Love your videos and like you can’t wait until March to sow!
I love this time of year, checking in the mornings to see if anything has germinated!
Hi Hilary, it's a great time of year, as you can tell my spirits are lifted and I'm raring to go! I will be joining you in the 'checking on the seedlings' thing in the next week or so :-)
Liz, here is too a long, abundant growing season. It’s so exciting, yippee 😃
ps ... happy St. Davids Day, St. Paddy’s Potato Planting (in buckets) Day is nearly upon us 😁💚🥔🇮🇪
Thank you, to you too!
It's very exciting, I have so many projects planned for the year, I can't wait to tell everyone about them!
Love the tub of soil sunk in the table.. what a great idea! :)
How exiting, it'a a wonderful time for a Gardener!!
It is a wonderful time, everything is so full of promise :-)
Lovely update Liz I went to the plot today to water my seeds and to see them germanated made my day but still plenty of seeds to go in yet. Just carnt wait for planting out time.
Happy sowing and growing
Regards Sam 🌞🌱🌼🐞🐝
It's a great time of year isn't it? So much promise for the season to come :-)
@@LizZorab ill be honest Liz I always been a little lazy on growing flowers I normally buy them first year growing marigolds and iv got 100 plus now for 50p I'm overjoyed buy it because 6 marigolds normally cost around £2.50 and for 50p now got 100 marigolds plent more to sow but loveing every second all the best and hope you have so much joy onwards and upwards 🌞🌱🌻🐞🐝
I am busy sowing too! I live in a drafty old farmhouse, so I have been using my Crockpot (slow cooker) to start seeds for years. You fill halfway with water and put a cookie sheet on top instead of the lid. Plant shallow pots with seeds and place on top. Depending on how hot your model gets, you adjust your setting to either warm or low. If it is still too hot, put a dishtowel between the pan and the shallow pots of soil. Too hot and you will cook your seeds. Remember to keep the soil moist and the water filled halfway in the pot! Once they sprout, move them to another spot and start more seeds! All my tomatoes are up and I am starting peppers now!
That's a neat way of starting off the seeds - thank you for the tip!
Absolutely love and look forward to each and every video you do thank you!
Aw thank you!
I'm using spent compost as I pot up tomato and pepper plants in a corner of the greenhouse, under the main shelf to sow salad leaves, so recycling the compost! I like the idea of the frame to make a deep bed. Cheers!
Hi Kerry, I'm hoping the frame works really well and then I can get rid of all of those falling-apart trays!
Starting earlier than you planned isn’t A fail, that’s a win in my book. 😂
Hi Lorella, I was just about to head over to your channel and check out what you decided to get from the hatchery!
Awesome update Liz thank you for your time in makings these videos
Thank you Linda! I'm doing a live chat tomorrow (Sunday) at 2pm GMT, hopefully you'll be able to join me for a while.
Great idea with the grit. We are hoping to be able to start seeds tomorrow. Looks like you've got a great start!
Thanks! I really struggled to find something similar to the grit listed in USA, but expect it's called something different there :-) What are you sowing first?
This is an exciting time of year planting my seeds and eagerly waiting to see the first tiny shoots!! I have done a few trays last weekend too with broad beans, letteuce, cabbage, sweetcorn. I still have more to do in trays and I love it!
Hi Denise, spring is such a great time! Coming out of my winter low and feeling hopeful again and then all those little plants just waiting to burst into life - it's fabulous!
@@LizZorab Thanks for your lovely reply. Yes I agree about leaving the gloom of winter dark evenings behind. It was discovering the enjoyment I got out of seeing seeds emerge into wonderful crops that has helped me with a lot of things.
It's snowing at the moment but I know bright days are ahead and my seeds are waiting.
Liz we have those Egyptian onions! We harvested 40lbs last year. They spread like crazy, but are very tasty. If you end up with too many later on, they freeze well. Chop them like you do your chives and freeze in a bag. Good luck and good planting!
Hi Eva, ooh thank you for the tip, I will remember about chopping and freezing them :-) Hope you can join me tomorrow (Sunday) for a while on my live chat if it isn't too early for you in your corner of the world!
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm I’ll try my best to see you tomorrow Liz! Take care!
Great share. Thankyou. I started seeding, great feeling.
It is a great feeling to get the season started again :-)
@@LizZorab oh just cant wait to get stuff into the ground. Well done Liz. Greatwork.
Good morning!! It’s been sunny ☀️ for 2 days in a row and I’m getting excited about the snow melting away. I’m getting excited about doing seeds. Have a Blessed day Beautiful. Tell Mr J hello 😉
Hi Stephie! Doesn't the sunshine make difference?! Our week of sunshine has lifted my spirits and I feel re-energised and ready to start the year :-)
Thank you for the grit tip. Looks like your off to a great start.
Hi Krystal, I'm very pleased to have got started, it's going to be full-on now for a couple of months, but that makes me very happy!
Fun time of year, Liz, good going :-)
Hi Rebecca Jo, how are you? It's a great time of year, this week my spirits have been lifted by the sunshine (even if the next week is due to be stormy).
Hi Liz! Yes all very exciting now, I managed to get out on the brassica bed this afternoon to get a bit more done, I do like your greenhouse very good :-)
Hi James, the greenhouse frame was here when we moved in and I spent the first few months getting the glass into it - it was like doing a puzzle without knowing the picture on the front of the box! It's not perfect, but it's perfect enough for my uses. There are a few panes missing which I fill in with polythene although that makes it very noisy when the wind is blowy. This greenhouse was secondhand when the previous owners bought it, greenhouse recycling - something I highly recommend!
I never heard of starting onion sets inside before Erica put her video up. While I have plenty of seed, I think I will get a bag of sets and try it as soon as they get in the stores, just to see how it goes.
I usually put my onion sets straight in the ground outside, I started these inside because I'm not sure exactly where I'm going to grow them.
Enjoying your channel. Our first seedlings are up today (at last) after a nervous wait since I used some 10+ yr old seed (was going to waste otherwise so took the chance).
Quite excited to find your perennial bean video recently. We're gradually developing a food forest in our suburban garden and I'm planting beans by the existing shrubs and young trees this year. What a bonus if any could be kept going perennially!
Hello! Great to read that your old seeds have germinated, nature is such a clever thing! Glad that you liked the bean video. If you have a look in the comments of that video (I think it was that one) several people commented that they've been growing beans in the same place with the same plants for years!
Liz I would move the Basil indoors until it sprouts. to get it started. Then put it in the greenhouse wnen the weather is a little warmer.
Thanks Carol, I answered your compost question a little earlier on.
Hello Liz and Mr J . Much love and respect . Howie
Hi Howie! Hope you can join me tomorrow for a while on my live chat :-)
Hi Liz . Would love to drop by your live stream . Sunday morning now and is 6 am here so if you could tell me what time . You Tube don t seem to work some times and I need to write it on paper .All the Best .Howie @@LizZorab
How exciting, I have my soil , seeds and trays , it's just too cold here now , and I don't have a greenhouse . So nice to see you have already begun ! ❤️🌿
Hi Diane, I think it need to heat my greenhouse for it to have any massive impact, but that's something for another year I think :-)
Love your daffodils! Mine should flower within a week I think. I tried some basil recently too, indoors on the warmest, sunniest window area we have, but nothing germinated - like you said, too cold. The grit idea is great, thanks for that tip.
Hi, the daffodils are out much earlier than they were last year, I guess that's a reflection of how mild it's been this winter. :-)
Great sowing you have there Liz :)
Thank you! It's been great to get started :-) Have you sown much yet?
@@LizZorab I have sow toms and chillies that is it for now i dont really know what to start sowing
Fun to see you potting seeds. We are still four months away from being able to put plants outside. I won’t pot until mid April. I have to say ready steady snow😂
Oh Carol, four more months! I really don't envy you the wait. I shall plant some seeds for you :-)
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm I know we are all starting to get cabin fever, but I love watching you plant and grow💐🌞
Enjoyed watching your seed sowing. I think I’ll get some purple sprouting broccoli to try.
It's a lovely flavour Lyn, broccoli but milder :-)
Nice one Liz. It will be a few years before I can really cut back on most plastics as I have already bought supplies to keep me going!
I have no space for a seed bed so I'm shopping for heavy duty plastic seed modules that are supposed to last 10 years or so.
Steve
Hi Steve, we do what we can do and that's all that we can do :-) Heavy duty seed modules sound great!
@@LizZorab Just bought a few packs of fibre pots (wrapped in plastic duh!) because of you. If my harvest fails I will be visiting LOL x
Steve
Love Daffodils, wtf are walking onions Liz, your handwriting is as good as mine, love you and the Mr, isn’t impending springtime season exciting.
Hi Michelle, walking onions are great , they are a perennial and they produce a seed head of little bulbils that bends over and when it touches the ground they start to root, so they reproduce themselves really well.
Looks great Liz. And so it begins. Except not for me - have to wait a few weeks yet to start the first of my sowing indoors under lights. Enjoy!
Hi Jo, I've had a few comments from folks that will have to wait a while yet and so I'm going to sow some seeds for those of you who are still under snow or rain :-)
@@LizZorab Perfect!! and Thank You!
Just come across your channel and had to subscribe great video keep them coming happy growing
Hello Neil and welcome! I hope you'll enjoy getting to know our little homestead.
We have started Brassicas and herbs so far. Happy gardening Liz.
great job with the seeds !! awesome looking seedlings & cuttings !! happy growing hey we come 💚🌱👌🎥
I look forward to hearing about the walking onions! This is something I have thought about growing,and would love to see how they do for you.
Great video :)
Thank you Heidi, I'm really looking forward to seeing how the walking onions grow over the next couple of years - I just have to remember not to pull them up when I harvest all the other onions!
First time subscriber saw you on Ericas chat Thanks for all the tips..I am from across the pond and have limited space but have managed to get a nice size rectangle raised bed and large pots and will start growing veg ..Love my flower beds also so Thanks again for the encourage ment to get started on my seeds Blessings your way🌱🌾🌺
I follow a homesteading channel called Lumnah Acres In the New England area of America who appear to be having harsher weather than us at the moment. He is starting some of his veggie sowing by using a little gadget to make compressed seed sowing blocks out of compost, which makes planting on much easier of course.
Hi June, those seed blockers are a great idea. I love Al's channel and yes they are having a fearsome winter!
Sorry Liz, should have known you don’t miss a trick!
Like your seed starting idea without trays great idea.Rain again here with hard freeze. Will it ever end😰😡😕! Anyway have happy beautiful day!❤
Hi Debra, I hope the rain stops soon for you and that you stay warm and dry :-)
You couldn't wait could you?😆
I can understand the excitement. 😁
I thought I'd held out pretty well really, lol. But a week of temperatures warm enough for t-shirts broke my resolve :-)
The grit thing - I have never heard of that! I'm so glad you mentioned it, I was wondering what it was.
I saw it on television a few years ago and have been doing it ever since!
Happy St. David's Day!
Thank you and you too!
Very curious about that onion. It's still on my wishlist. We always sow the broadbeans outside, along with early peas. We started cavolo nero too although some that were outside survived this weird mild winter. We started our seeds last week cause this weekend we're getting new piglets! Looking forward to seeing your garden in full swing.
Piglets!!!! How exciting, how many are you getting? What breed? Please do tell :-)
@@LizZorab Kunekune this time for the pasture, at least two but more likely four or five. Also looking into a breeding pair.
Thanks Liz for sign posting video re red cabbage. Copying the idea with breaking plastic milk bottles etc to make labels especially when potting on seedlings. What will you be sowing now in July/August?
Your daffodils are up!? Oh my! Yes I heard you were exceptionally warm over there already,, hope it doesn't lead to another scorcher of a summer. -37 Celsius here this am,,, Canmore Alberta. We are a long way off from daffodils,,,June maybe.
Hi, we had glorious weather last week, but as I type (Sunday night) we are being battered by a storm with up to 80mph winds!
I knew you'd cave and plant seeds before March 1st he he
Well yes, okay lol, but only by a few days! I'm so excited that the growing season is now under way - yippeeeeee!
Dear Liz, we are runing out of snow on 1000masl. Day temperatures almost 15 degres. My neighbour next door who has nothing to do is already 3 times burned just stting outside. I am afraid we will have no fruits this year when late frost will come in april. Bezz are already outside. I was in the valey this morning around 8am and I saw frozen cars but at 6am in our hils was 2 plus. Last year at thet time we have over meter of snow. Old aple and plum trees here are 10m high, no way to protect them of frost. We have a cherry tree, its higher then hous and we have 3 flat house. Must be 200 years old, full of charrys every year just for birds. If thet tree felt down we will have sirius damage on our hous. My gradma was born in 1905, till she died she always says, dont cut down the trees. They are stil wery much productive, with no work, old kind of sorts. Lots of good pies and marmalads but you have to be a kind of alpinist to rich the fruits, then I use my husband hahaaaa. His life insurance is very good haaaa.... Usualy I start with seeds direct in the ground in the end of march, and sometimes in may we have snow, but even my tomatoes survive in 15cm of snow two years ago, it was I think 5th of may but of course next day no frost and the snow was gone thru the day. I work 6 months per year, 16 hours per day in the sommer season so I dont have much time for my garden. In almost 20 years I learn all the haks how to grow enought with less work . But I told you before, may bugs are pain in my ass, I have to buy nematodes second time . It is expensive. I can get lots of vegetables for this money from local farms. With thet money I can buy enough meat for family of two for al year. Just my garden and grass oround the hous, where is other 8000m2. So I understand young people who left farms. Lots of city people buy vegi and meat in Lidl, Spar....Local food is to expensive, I work in turisem and belive me most of turist eat hamburgers and picas, gril meat, pancakes....maybe fish and they ask if the fish is fresh from the lake. Are you crazy, our lake is 6km long how can I get so much fresh fish for a milion of turists? Is salmon fresh from the lake? Dear god, meditiranian sea doesnt has salmons to swim up river, but when somebody ask you if tuna if fresh in the salat belowe 2864m high mountain......yes, I came before work and catch tuna in our lake yust before you came. Want to tell you thet local food for turists is expensive so they rather eat picas and hamburgers on vacations It is very hard to earn some money with gardening and sell it to hotels and restaurants. Again my long coment, I promis I will not send another one for few months hahaaaa...love you all!!!
I am glad you said about cuts taking time to heal because of thyroid, as I have experienced it myself and keep telling myself 'Don 't Panic Mr Manuring' I thought when I was diagnosed with it that at last I would be losing a lot of weight but the opposite has happened. Any way the spring is here and what joy it brings,m keep up good work Liz.
Hi Mark, thyroid issues are a funny thing (peculiar not ha ha!), my weight is a constant battle which I get to grips with during the summer when I'm active and fail miserably in the winter when I'm sedentary :-)
@@LizZorab Yes Liz, exactly how I feel. Hopefully after summer graft I'm hoping to ;look down and see my feet. May take a picture for posterity sake. Tried cabbage diet once, after 2 months I did not loose a bean but my mother lost 2.5 stone. The joy of dieting is not the winning but the taking part. Much prefer to be gardening and being outdoors, weather permitting.
I wish I could get out in my garden but here in B.C Canada still under a foot of snow.
Hi Lori, I really feel for you in B.C. when we are celebrating the start of the season, but it will come for you before too long I am sure.
Nice to see you sowing! Do you have an Aide-memoi to know when and what to plant each year?
Hi Steve, I do indeed! Here's a video about how I keep track of my sowing and growing. ruclips.net/video/FLblaVS6zwg/видео.html
@@LizZorab Thanks ! I like the idea of numbering the beds/ listing with plants.
I need to try the brussels / kale xx
Hi Mel, I've seen them listed under several different names, Kalettes was one of them, I think there are several varieties available :-)
@@LizZorab Iv found some so will order later x
Kalettes are gorgeous, was only thinking I must get mine sown. Growing them for the first time. Amazingly i don't like either Brussels or kale but love kalettes!
The walking onions you could have sown outside, i started these in oktober and they sprouted/grew true frost and snow, now they are about 5cm big.
Hi Rita, thank you for the tip about the walking onions, next year I will prepare a space for them in the autumn. I love that I am learning new things about gardening all the time :-)
@@LizZorab thanks, and im learning alot from you too! Love your videosl grtz.
HI What is the fleece for
The horticultural fleece (I think it's called a floating membrane or floating cover in USA) provides extra protection and warmth for the seeds. It still lets some light and moisture through but insulates them from the cold.
@@LizZorab Thanks
Remember Geoff Hamilton? He made a box wìth manure at the bottom and then soil which turned it into a hot box.
Not only remember him, but he is/was my gardening hero. Still watch videos (now on DVD) of his making a cottage garden and a small edible garden, what a star of a man he was!
@@LizZorab : My hero too. Died much too young.
I'm curious to know what you will use instead of fleece after the fleece that you are currently working with has been rendered useless?
Hi Jaye, I think I'm going to use hessian sacking as it will break down readily once it's beyond it's useful life.
@@LizZorab Hessian (AKA burlap in North America) sounds like a very good alternative - thanks for answering!
Sorry if you've already answered this Liz, but there are already 100 comments, and the question isn't in the immediate ones. Have you tried direct sowing your Broad Beans in the September-December before? and if so what is your reasoning for now preferring to start them in the green house?
Hi Suzanne, late 2017 I planted broad beans to over winter and they did really well and survived the beast from the east snow storms. As soon as it warmed up, the slugs came out and ate every last bean! This year I thought I'd give them a fighting chance by starting them later and in the greenhouse. 😃
@@LizZorab Ah, I see. It will be really interesting to see how they fair in comparison. It's something I've always meant to do as a trial, but I don't really have the room. I always start mine off in the Autumn, but others around me start their's off in the green house now. I think I'm also reluctant because I don't have a green house, so I kind of begrudge the limited house space I have being taken up by something I know I can start outside the year before. I could do with time shares in a Fairy God Mother for more land instead of the gown lol